1 | .\" RoarAudio |
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2 | .TH "RoarAudio" "7" "November 2010" "RoarAudio" "System Manager's Manual: RoarAuido" |
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3 | |
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4 | .SH NAME |
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5 | RoarAudio \- RoarAudio sound system and package |
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6 | |
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7 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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8 | |
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9 | \fBroard\fR [OPTIONS]... |
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11 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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12 | \fBRoarAudio\fR is a modern, multi-OS, network transparent sound system. |
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13 | It supports a large amount of features required for home and professional usage. |
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14 | Its main purpose is to connect software (like media players) and devices (like soundcards) as a mid-layer adding features you expect from a modern sound system like software mixing and full network transparency. |
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16 | RoarAudio can also be used to connect multiple software components. An example for such a setup is a common webradio setup where the used playback software is connected to a streaming server in addition to a local soundcard. RoarAudio has special features for such setups like meta data passing. |
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18 | .SH "MAIN FEATURES" |
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19 | * fully network transparent. Network support for UNIX Domain Sockets, TCP/IP and DECnet |
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20 | * multiple audio streams per client |
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21 | * Vorbis comments like meta data for each audio stream |
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22 | * support for "legacy" clients via libroaresd, libroararts, libroaryiff |
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23 | * support for PulseAudio and OpenBSD's sndio clients via libroarpulse and libroarsndio |
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24 | * supported by many media players and other sound using applications! |
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25 | * mixing clients at individual levels like an analog mixer |
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26 | * server and client side support for common codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and many more |
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27 | * support for 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit per sample. Mixer resolution up to 64 bit |
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28 | * and many more... |
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29 | |
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30 | .SH "BUGS" |
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31 | A lot... |
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33 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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34 | \fBroar-config\fR(1), |
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35 | \fBroarcat\fR(1), |
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36 | \fBroarcat2sock\fR(1), |
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37 | \fBroarcatad\fR(1), |
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38 | \fBroarctl\fR(1), |
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39 | \fBroarfilt\fR(1), |
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40 | \fBroarfish\fR(1), |
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41 | \fBroarmon\fR(1), |
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42 | \fBroarsockconnect\fR(1), |
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43 | \fBroartypes\fR(1), |
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44 | \fBroarvorbis\fR(1), |
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45 | \fBroard\fR(1), |
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46 | \fBroartips\fR(7), |
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47 | \fBlibroar\fR(7). |
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48 | |
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49 | .SH "HISTORY" |
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50 | Project started in mid of 2008. |
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51 | |
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52 | Milestones: |
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53 | 2008-08-31 First offical release (v. 0.1) |
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54 | 2009-02-04 First release of the new trunk for 0.2 (v. 0.2beta0) |
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55 | With this release the version schema was changed. |
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56 | 2009-05-21 Release of version 0.2 |
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57 | 2009-09-06 First commercal use (roarphone, v. 0.3beta0) |
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58 | 2010-06-11 New pre-release based release-cycle was introduced to improve release quality |
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59 | 2010-08-22 Release of version 0.3 |
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60 | |
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61 | .\"ll |
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